> Hi!> > > > > As already mentioned, ext3 is just not a good choice for this sort of> > > > thing. Did you have atimes enabled?> > > > > > At least for ext3, more important than atimes is the "data=writeback"> > > setting. Especially since our atime default is sane these days (ie if> > > you don't specify anything, we end up using 'relatime').> > > > > > If you compile your own kernel, answer "N" to the question> > > > > > Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3?> > > > > > at config time (CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED), or you can make sure> > > "data=writeback" is in the fstab (but I don't think everything honors> > > it for the root filesystem).> > > > Don't forget to mention data=writeback is not the default because if your system > > crashes or you lose power running in this mode it will *CORRUPT YOUR FILESYSTEM* > > and you *WILL LOSE DATA*. Not to mention> > You will lose your data, but the filesystem should still be consistent, right? > Metadata are still journaled.

That is data that was freshly touched around the time the system went down, right?

I.e. data that was probably half-modified by user-space to begin with.